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I want to take this moment to thank Dr. James Lai and Dr. David Frost, my former advisors, who have always inspired me to work innovatively. I would like to acknowledge my former and current graduate students and research associates for their contributions: Cristian Druta, Yanrong Fu, Yang Lu, Chris Harris, Xue Li, Tongyan Pan, Jin-Young Park, Wenjuan Sun, Dong Wang, Yongping Wang, Bing Zhang, Guoqing Zhou, and Yu Zhou. The support by the National Science Foundation, the Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, the Louisiana Transportation Research Center, and the Federal Highway Administration Turner-Fairbank Research Center is also acknowledged. I also would like to acknowledge many of my colleagues for the courtesy provision of some of the figures and equations. I would especially acknowledge Dr. Xingran Wang for his contribution to the interface model and the implicit implementation sections. Ms. Katie Thacker has provided professional editing, which is sincerely acknowledged. Last but not least, I am grateful to Larry Hager at McGraw-Hill, Virginia Howe and Roger D. Woodson at Lone Wolf, Ent. for their encouragement, support and patient work that finally made the book, and to all those who have helped me.
This book is dedicated to my parents, my wife Yan, and my sons George and Charlie, whose love has always inspired me and given me the strength to work hard.
—Linbing Wang